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In der Republik Irland sind in den letzten zehn Jahren mehrere Studien von der "Irish National Adult Learning Organisation" (AONTAS) publiziert worden, die nach den so genannten "Benefits of Lifelong Learning" fragen. In dem Artikel gehen die beiden Autorinnen auf die Spezifika der irischen Erwachsenenbildung ein, die lange Zeit mit wenigen Ressourcen auskommen musste und insbesondere deshalb herausgefordert war -und durch die aktuellen wirtschaftlichen Probleme des Landes wieder erneut herausgefordert ist-, die Wirkungen und den Nutzen von Bildung zu belegen.

This essay was originally written for an online collection of articles on liberal arts in urban contexts, but it has not been formally published. The beginning and ending discuss community learning as a specific pedagogic approach in a liberal arts context. I've revised it for our retreat not to advocate for community service learning (though I do regard CL as a Good Thing), but rather to air the speculations about the nature of the liberal arts -- inspired by Hannah Arendt and John Dewey -- that arise in the latter part of the paper, beginning in section III (p. 6). In my opinion, much of the public discussion of higher education (for example, in Arum and Roksa's Academically Adrift) is distorted by a commodifiction of knowledge, where knowledge is regarded as a Thing that can be transferred from teacher to student (the "banking model" criticized by Paolo Freire), and where community is construed as a sort of container in which students and faculty are housed. The alternative Deweyan view focuses on the activities of discovery, learning, and common purpose which are shared by all participants in college life.

The Social and Decision Analytics Laboratory (SDAL) of the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech received a planning grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (LJAF) to develop a strategy for a national community learning network. Through the development of this strategy Virginia Tech formed a partnership with Iowa State University, placing Virginia and Iowa at the center of initiating a national movement that would empower local governments to embrace data-driven governance. The first steps of this national strategy involve massive deployment of community learning across Virginia and Iowa, using these states as exemplars for igniting a full national movement. Based on the research completed in this grant, Virginia Tech and Iowa State University are developing a proposal with LJAF to realize the first steps of this national strategy - a Land Grant Partnership for Data-Driven Governance. ; This vision was developed with substantial input and advice from colleagues at our principal partner institution, Iowa State University. This includes: Sarah Nusser, Vice President for Research and Professor of Statistics; Erin Mullenix, Director of Data Driven Science, Iowa State University; Chadwick Higgins, Senior Director, Iowa State University Extension and Outreach; and Wolfgang Kliemann, Associate Vice President for Research. We also thank James Schwartz, Deputy County Manager, Arlington County, VA for his vision and role in working with us to develop this vision. We acknowledge the hard work and dedication of the 2016 Data Science for the Social Good Fellows: Undergraduate students Mark Almanza, Virginia Tech; Madison Arnsbarger, Virginia Tech; Jessica Flynn, Cornell University; Adrienne Rogers, Virginia Tech; Will Sandholtz, University of California Berkeley; Emily Stark, Austin Peay State University; and Iowa State University Graduate Students Millicent Grant and Samantha Tyner. ; false (Extension publication?)

Labour's attitude to the Community has tended to be influenced more by contemporary debate and intra-party trends than by a considered view of integration. The Policy Review has little to say on the contentious issues of increasing EP power, VAT harmonisation and the ERM--all of which have been opposed by Labour in the past. But genuine attitudinal changes can be seen in Neil Kinnock and in the joint Democratic Socialist Group Euro-election manifesto of 1989. (SJK)